Issue 26, Page 17
Meant to say this last week but we’ve got a new video up on YouTube!
Transcript
1: Xijo sits in one of the testing chambers, dictating notes into a small device. Before him, trapped in a tube of glass, is the embryonic, mutated form of a sample of the Black Mass.
Xijo: I am here to observe test subject C-20.
This is one of the original specimen tested upon by the scientists in Sudan.
2: A view of the test subject, which has smoothed out into a sort of embryonic shape.
Xijo: Genetic samples imply radical and rapid shifts.
It is growing, or evolving, even without any further testing or interference.
3: The seated Xijo looking up at the sample.
Xijo: What these scientists have done here, purposeful or not… They have taken this thing and raised it to a level it should not be at. They have elevated a slug, a mold, to such heights…
4: Side view as he watches the inert mass.
Xijo: I am reminded of the myth of Xi’zak…
Grieving parents who lost a child when she was very, very young decide to raise a wild animal as if it were their child.
It seems to be a person, to have learned their ways, for years… until growing savage and deranged, killing them both.
5: A close-up of the mass.
Xijo: They took something low and tried to uplift it, and they paid the price.
Xi’zak… Is this what the Earth scientists have done?
Who will you slaughter?
“Who will you slaughter?”
“Ehh, I’m not picky.”
8-C
I have *such* chills from this page…